Chapter 867
No one could fathom the elation surging through Dowager Vance. She and her daughter had been locked away in this hole for four days. Four whole days.
She had no idea how she’d made it through. Throughout her life, aside from the grief of losing her son, she had known nothing but comfort and ease. She had never endured a moment of true hardship.
But these four days in the dark room had been a lifetime of suffering condensed into one horrific experience. The food was slop fit for pigs. The floor was her bed. She didn’t even have clean water.
On the first day, she had been on the verge of dying from despair. She refused to eat or drink, her pride forbidding her from touching the disgusting filth they offered.
But by the second day, after her stomach had digested its last remnants of food, she couldn’t hold out any longer. Humiliated and nauseated, she forced herself to eat the moldy scraps the guard had brought. It wasn’t just the hunger. The room was so dark you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face. Even when she was awake, rats and cockroaches were constant companions.
Every waking moment of these four days had been consumed by a desperate desire to escape. And now, finally, a glimmer of hope.
Rosemary was just as ecstatic. Four days! She had finally been granted a reprieve. She scrambled up from the floor and grabbed her mother’s hand, tears of joy streaming down her face. “Mother, this is wonderful! It must be someone from the royal family coming to save us p>
The Vance family were benefactors to the crown, after all. If they hadn’t provided that crucial intelligence all those years ago, would the royal family be thriving as it was today?
Dowager Vance nodded in agreement. Yes. It had to be the royals.
At that thought, a venomous look flashed in her eyes. “Once we’re out of here, I’m going to make that little bitch Freya pay p>
So what if Caitlin was some
esteemed guest of the royals? The Vance family was who held real value to the crown. It was obvious, who the royal family would ultimately side with.
Rosemary’s face twisted with
malice. “You’re right, Mother! When we get out, we can’t let that
wretched girl from the Gonzales, family off easy!” They would torture, Caitlin for the rest of her life,just as they had done to Carey.
The mother and daughter stumbled toward the light, muttering their vengeful plans.
The guard standing at the door barked at them, “Hurry up! Stop dawdling!” They quickened their pace. Reaching the doorway, Dowager Vance plastered a sycophantic smile on her face. “Officer, hello. Are we being released today?” “Released?” The guard sneered, looking them up and down. “Someone like you two? You think you’re getting out of here?” Maybe in the next life.
The excitement on their faces vanished instantly, and their hearts plummeted.
Rosemary demanded, “If you’re not releasing us, why did you let us out of the dark room p>
“A big shot wants to see you,” the guard said, his eyes filled with disgust. “Now follow me p>
It was true what they said. People really were different. Caitlin had
been locked in that same room for a long time, yet she had emerged looking completely unfazed. But look at this mother and daughter duo. Their eyes were vacant faces, Covered in cuts, clothes stained with blood. They were a pathetic sight. It was easy to imagine the miserable time they’d had these past few days.